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Telegraph Giant General Knowledge Answers

Saturday, 11th March 2023
There are 33 across clues and 32 down clues for the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword on Saturday, 11th March 2023. View the answers below..
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Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 10: Mycologist, shepherdess and watercolourist whose illustrated books based on anthropomorphic bunnies, kittens, squirrels and other country creatures have sold some 250 million copies since 1902
AAcross 11: A carriage cushion; a padded ottoman/sofa; a well-stuffed bolster; a back part of a motor car seat; a fledgeling dove, pigeon, rook or other young bird; or, the flesh of the aforesaid columbiformes as food
AAcross 13: Depicted on the coronation emblem of King Charles III, a yellow flower with a nodding “head” said to embody the boy Narcissus, gazing at his reflection in a pool of water
AAcross 14: Consciousness; soul; direction of the will; wits; a person considered as an intellectual or a thinker; or, a British mental health charity of which Stephen Fry is the president
AAcross 15: Campus, estate, gardens, park or other land collectively surrounding a castle, large country house or university; coffee bean sediment; or, the basis of justification or action
AAcross 16: Cadmium yellow, rose madder, scarlet lake, viridian or other pigment suspended in a linseed- or poppy-based medium for mixing on a palette and applying to a canvasOIL PAINT
AAcross 17: A coleopteran such as a devil’s coach-horse, firefly, glow-worm, ladybird or rose chafer; or, a dice game in which a picture of said insect is gradually drawn or assembled
AAcross 19: An acorn, cob, filbert or other such seed whose shell, according to Pliny the Elder, could contain a complete copy of Homer’s Iliad
AAcross 20: An arrow or spear; a sunbeam, lightning bolt or other column of light; the rachis or rib of a feather; one of a pair of thills of a carriage or cart; or, a well-like passage into a mine
AAcross 21: From the Latin for “haven” or “harbour”, a city or town’s anchorage; or, a word among mariners for a ship’s left side, opposite starboard
AAcross 22: Small sample of carpet, cloth or wallpaper; a number of said testers bound as a book; a computer’s palette of active colours; or, a spot of ink for matching during printing
AAcross 24: An aqueduct, bascule, clapper, ponceau, series of stepping-stones etc spanning an obstacle such as a moat or river; or, a connecting part, such as the nose of a pair of specs
AAcross 26: A doorless pew; a cowshed or stable; a bench or booth for the sale of goods in a market; or, one of a glove’s tube-like cots for fingers
AAcross 29: Plant bearing bunches of the green or purple berries used to make an oenophile’s drink of choice; or, pertaining to its far-stretching branches, the “bush telegraph”
AAcross 29: Plant bearing bunches of the green or purple berries used to make an oenophile’s drink of choice; or, pertaining to its far-stretching branches, the “bush telegraph”
AAcross 30: Word for a batch, bloomer, boule or other baked block of bread, synonymous with brains/sense, due to “bread” rhyming with “head”
AAcross 32: Word for faces or their welcoming aspects originally, later cries of approval, encouragement or joy
AAcross 34: Said to be the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson’s character Long John Silver, author of the poem Invictus, whose daughter influenced the name “Wendy” in Peter Pan
AAcross 36: Hot spiced ale; an eddy or ripple; a babbling sound of a shallow brook; a knitting stitch; or, twisted gold or silver wire thread for embroidery
AAcross 37: From the French for “flight in the breeze”, a bouchée à la reine-like puff pastry case or shell filled with chicken or mushroom veloutéVOL-AU-VENT
AAcross 40: Swathe of cloth for the shoulders, such as a Paisley or a pashmina
AAcross 42: Alluding to large hairpieces formerly worn by distinguished men, an informal word for a dignitary, nob or other person of importance
AAcross 43: From the Greek for “peeled barley”, a decoction of said grain; or, any infusion of flowers or herbs
AAcross 45: Bow-shaped structure employed to span/support or to stand as an ornamental feature or monument; or, a basic pattern in a fingerprint
AAcross 47: The “St John’s Bread” of the locust tree; or, the powder derived from said fruit pods, used to make ersatz chocolate or dog chocs
AAcross 49: From the Middle English for “boat boy”, a short word for the skipper or helm of a lifeboat or racing shell; or, a cultivar of apple
AAcross 50: A partition of timber or stone in a church or a medieval hall; a sieve; framed mesh for serigraphy; the film industry; or, movies collectively
AAcross 52: From the Old French for “throat” and related to a word for a tracheal gurgling sound, a waterspout in grotesque human or animal form
AAcross 54: Any device preventing waste or loss; a light sail set to catch the breeze spilled from a larger sheet; dialect for an apron; or, a miserSAVE-ALL
AAcross 55: A border, selvedge or strip; or, a written enumeration of items, names, things to buy, to-dos, topics etc
AAcross 56: A building with sails or vanes generating power to grind grain into flour; or, a toy whirligig or pinwheel, suggestive of said aerogenerator
AAcross 57: Birds synonymous with daybreak, early risers, escapades and frolics
AAcross 58: Thought to be related to the German for “basket”, a cot on rockers; or, by extension, infancy or origin
DDown 1: From the Latin for “known”, an intimation such as a placard, poster, sign or small ad; or, a short published artistic, dramatic or literary review
DDown 2: Small round earring; a cleat; a boss or doornail; a cuff link-like fastener for a shirt front; or, an upright timber
DDown 3: French word for a sugared almond, a chocolate chip, a medicated sweet or a silvered candy bead for a cake
DDown 4: Queen Victoria’s former seaside retreat in East Cowes, designed in the Italianate style by Queen Camilla’s great-great-great grandfather Thomas Cubitt and Prince Albert
DDown 5: A room’s moveables; a door’s fixings; or, a horse’s trappings
DDown 6: Word for a barrister or a solicitor from which a yellow custardy Dutch “lawyer’s drink” derived its name
DDown 7: From the Latin meaning “to breathe or to blow upon”, word for divine creative impulse or inspiration
DDown 8: Informal word for fizzy water or pop; the top card of the pack in faro; or, a short word for a compound in baking/washing powder or in toothpaste
DDown 9: A dainty apron; a maker of tacks for temporarily fastening cloth; either of a pair of lappets of a lady’s white linen indoor cap; or, the cloth hat itself
DDown 12: Sculptured portraits; or, raids
DDown 18: A long hard hike; a sound of heavy treading or horses’ hooves; top of a spade’s blade; or, a hobo, such as the one portrayed by Charlie Chaplin
DDown 21: A public/market square; a town, village or other locality; or, one’s seat in a restaurant, theatre, train etc
DDown 22: Sommeliers; players who take the first shots to start points in tennis; utensils for distributing food at tables; or, computer hosts
DDown 23: A brood, hatch or flock of grouse, partridges, quail or other game birds; or, a small party or set of people
DDown 25: A pendant; a pinch; a precipice; a plummet/plunge; or, a pear sweet
DDown 27: From the French for “ogle”, a pair of spectacles or opera glasses on a handle; or, a monocle
DDown 28: A winning cry drawing attention to a pair of matching playing cards or to two similar things generally; a quick bite to eat; or, a ginger biscuit
DDown 31: A measure of 12 inches, originally based on the length of a man’s pes
DDown 32: Word for strength originally, later any boat or ship; a skilled trade; its collective members; dexterity or mastery in handiwork; or, cunning
DDown 33: A heavy harrow; a gentleman’s four-in-hand private coach; a brake; a road; or, any tedious experience, occupation, person or thing
DDown 35: A lyam/tether for a dog or a hawk; or, three foxes, hares or hounds
DDown 38: Old word for a mask; the peak of a cap; or, the eyeshade of a helmet
DDown 39: A breakthrough or revelation; the unravelling of a plot; something found; or, a model of Land Rover
DDown 41: Game/lottery in which prizes are randomly selected from a box; or, any venture of uncertain outcomeLUCKY DIP
DDown 42: Needlepoint or tapestry method, also called flame stitch
DDown 44: A wide stretch of cloud, fog, forest, sea, sky etc; or, the firmament
DDown 46: Informal word for one of a touring rock group’s technicians; or, a cyclist who rides on paved thoroughfares, as opposed to muddy trails
DDown 48: From the Greek for “royal”, hence its nickname “king of herbs”, pot herb pounded with a pestle for pesto
DDown 50: A vitreous solid and oxide occurring in nature as chalcedony, cristobalite, opal or quartz
DDown 51: From the Dutch for “donkeys”, supports bearing the burden of artists’ canvasses in studios or en plein air
DDown 53: Occupants seated in a theatre’s gallery or “paradise”; or, the deities forming a collective pantheon
DDown 55: Cargo or other borne quantity; or, by extension, emotional baggage